A man in Provincetown, Massachusetts experienced an event almost biblical and could be heard only on children’s stories.
Lobster diver Michael Packard, 56, said he was in the middle of diving on Friday when it suddenly got dark around him.
“All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard told the Cape Cod Times. “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.”
He initially thought that a great white shark swallowed him but he noticed that it did not have sharp fangs and teeth.
He almost gave up and accepted his fate but he allegedly tried to act until he was spit out by the one which swallowed him – a humpback whale.
Packard was so thankful that he escaped from the whale that swallowed him.
Meanwhile, the humpback whale is a species of baleen whale.
It is one of the larger rorqual species, with adults ranging in length from 12–16 m (39–52 ft) and weighing around 25–30 t (28–33 short tons).
The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is known for breaching and other distinctive surface behaviors, making it popular with whale watchers.
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